LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1657, 17 February 1883, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

i ■ The Markets. Auckland, Last Night. The wholesale price of butter to-day generally declined to Is, the retail value being fixed at Is 3d per lb ; eggs about equal to, the;deinand,| and,?femain'. at _ last quotations. Very little done in either flour or grain,, No material alterations' recorded in the timber market ; secondclass boards and scantling have, been .reduced 1 to 9s' 6d per 100 fee¥; shiugles to 17s per 1000. Gum has been coming' in rather in excess of the demand, and consequently the prices for both good ordinary and East Coast declined, about ( £l per ton, '" Mr Biriney sold by auction 'to- 4 play 236 bags of oats at 2s 6d per bushel, and a small li'iie of wheat" at '3s Ifr. 111 1 ' ' ' '■'' Steadman's > Estate. (( f •« ' At a meeting of the creditors of Stejad- • man,; seedsman,, Mrj,iThorne,» spUcitorj' said that an arrangement had beei^made number and value, of creditors. Everything was going, onfall rrightt t till day n whea S.te^dma^^ecgiYe^ ,B,^ X, Dai-is, j^rusjiee,, to^ne^effecj^that t '(Stea4.mftn) MiouJ4j worth, ot furniture,' to j^hiqQ^|M,^m&n . either, acted^inv ignoranceiof^theyunoer^

intended that' pteadman should, T)e turned out of his house at 36 hours ST^TOb tn^^aeVKn'^lSnWon to the efi^t|thatstead i man jpd thwarted him in his duties as trustee, and had inmeeting was adjournldf tiff firgditdrs resolving toiJ)Old.jtbe', touera property for a year, and.aell it. to the best advantage/ 1 ' •' ■ ' ! r n>K ' T " f ""''•;• !jl " i